Thanks Jorgen I can see from other posts that nano would work too but as you will see from my updatad post I got there using the apt-get xscreensaver option
thanks for answering though
much appreciated
Rosignol

I have tried following the instructions posted here to disable the text terminals (ctrl-alt-1 etc) from blanking after a few minutes, but they were ineffective. Has any of this changed with jessie? Does anyone know a working method?

Fenhl wrote:I have tried following the instructions posted here to disable the text terminals (ctrl-alt-1 etc) from blanking after a few minutes, but they were ineffective. Has any of this changed with jessie? Does anyone know a working method?

I simply MUST get rid of this stupid screen blanking too. Is there no GUI window where such things can be configured?
I have Raspbian Jessie (Nov 2015) and it blanks the screen after a very short time.
In thus thread are so many different solutions and I get very confused...

What is the correct way to actually stop the blanking from happening on Raspbian Jessie????

What is zshrc as mentioned above? Surely there must be a path to it if it is a file?

Does xscreensaver work in Jessie? It was mentined here before Jessie was released...

The link above leads to a thread about the console, but I am talking about the GUI screen that gets black after a short time.

EDIT:
I installed the xscreensaver and then I found a new app in the Preferences submenu for the screensaver.
It has a selection for display mode on the first (left) tab where one can disable the screensaver altogether.
And it works in Jessie! All is now fine.

Thanks! I've been having this same problem for a while. I had tried the autostart settings in all 3 locations (both /etc/xdg/xsession/ locations and ~./config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/) and it still wasn't working. Adding the xorg.conf file did the trick!

I stand by my words here: If you are considering removing this warning, then I ask that instead, you remove the XScreenSaver software from Debian entirely. I believe Gnome-Screensaver will be more to your liking anyway.

/* If you are in here because you're planning on disabling this warning
before redistributing my software, please don't.

I sincerely request that you do one of the following:

1: leave this code intact and this warning in place, -OR-

2: Remove xscreensaver from your distribution.

I would seriously prefer that you not distribute my software at all
than that you distribute one version and then never update it for
years.

I am *constantly* getting email from users reporting bugs that have
been fixed for literally years who have no idea that the software
they are running is years out of date. Yes, it would be great if we
lived in the ideal world where people checked that they were running
the latest release before they report a bug, but we don't. To most
people, "running the latest release" is synonymous with "running the
latest release that my distro packages for me."

When they even bother to tell me what version they're running, I
say, "That version is three years old!", and they say "But this is
the latest version my distro ships". Then I say, "your distro
sucks", and they say "but I don't know how to compile from source,
herp derp I eat paste", and *everybody* goes away unhappy.

It wastes an enormous amount of my time, and kind of makes me regret
ever having released this software in the first place.

So seriously. I ask that if you're planning on disabling this
obsolescence warning, that you instead just remove xscreensaver from
your distro entirely. Everybody will be happier that way. Check
out gnome-screensaver instead, I understand it's really nice.

Of course, my license allows you to ignore me and do whatever the
fuck you want, but as the author, I hope you will have the common
courtesy of complying with my request.

Is there anyway of contacting the Raspian team to give us the information to turn screensaver off ?

I'm also interested to disable the screen saver completely, once and forever.
But reading through this topic I don't understand anything about how to do it now - perhaps the solution is just obscured by too many words written here.
Now is there a final solution with reasonable effort for setting it up?

Is there anyway of contacting the Raspian team to give us the information to turn screensaver off ?

I'm also interested to disable the screen saver completely, once and forever.
But reading through this topic I don't understand anything about how to do it now - perhaps the solution is just obscured by too many words written here.
Now is there a final solution with reasonable effort for setting it up?

You just want it OFF? no darkening of screen (blanking) after 10 minutes (or custom time elapse)?, no powering off monitor?, no screen locking?

Then that It is easy (if you have previously installed anything like xscreensaver, or light-locker, remove it)

Rive wrote:
'select all', then right click 'copy', then scroll to bottom with down arrow key, then 'paste'

I am assuming that by "select all" you mean in the code section of your post and not inside nano, right?
Anyway, doing so adds 4 spaces to the front of each line. This may or may not have detrimental effects.
If you instead just select the lines in the code section, then use Ctrl-C to copy and then paste into the nano window there are no extra spaces added.

timmoore46 wrote: Massive thanks to the member davenull that posted the fix !!

You must be super confused. It is very easy to confuse the quotes, and responses. FYI, "davenull" was requesting an 'easy to implement' fix, he didn't provide any fix

Here is his original post:

davenull wrote:I'm also interested to disable the screen saver completely, once and forever.
But reading through this topic I don't understand anything about how to do it now - perhaps the solution is just obscured by too many words written here.
Now is there a final solution with reasonable effort for setting it up?

Last edited by Rive on Tue May 10, 2016 2:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

davenull wrote:thank you, yes, I just intended the screen always to be visible, no black screen, no screen power save mode.
I followed your instructions just right now, and I'm observing wht's happening...

edit:
30 min passed, everything is still on
Thanks again!

You must be super confused. It is very easy to confuse the quotes, and responses. FYI, "davenull" was requesting a fix, he didn't provide any fix

Here is his original post:

davenull wrote:I'm also interested to disable the screen saver completely, once and forever.
But reading through this topic I don't understand anything about how to do it now - perhaps the solution is just obscured by too many words written here.
Now is there a final solution with reasonable effort for setting it up?

Another poster (quoted below for reference) thought that fix was provided by you, and was thanking you for providing it. I was informing him that he was confused and you were asking for a fix, not providing one.

Evidently the way this board does the quotes is very confusing.

timmoore46 wrote:Massive thanks to the member davenull that posted the fix !!